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Allen Lessels' UNH Notebook: JMU game viewed as must-winBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 07. 2013 11:00PM
DURHAM -- It's quite simple.
The University of New Hampshire football team must win Saturday's home game against James Madison or that's it.
If the Wildcats don't win, there will be no need to worry about playoff possibilities, no need to wonder if a selection committee will deem the Wildcats worthy of an at-large berth in the FCS tournament.
There will be no 10th straight playoff appearance.
"We're 4-4 and we're .500 in the best league in the country and if we don't win this game, we're nowhere," said UNH coach Sean McDonnell.
If they can knock off No. 22-ranked James Madison — which is 6-3 overall and 3-2 in the Colonial Athletic Association and also fighting for its playoff life — the Wildcats must still win next week at Albany and the week after that back home against a powerful Maine team to close out the regular season.
All McDonnell worries about is getting past the Dukes.
"It's important that we win this football game just to get to 5-4," he said. "And nothing else."
The Wildcats rallied and fought back from a 1-3 start to the season with three straight wins. They were shut out for the first time since 1995, a span of 220 games, last week at William & Mary, 17-0, and that leaves no room for error.
"We have that mentality of taking it one game at a time and that will kind of clear that whole playoff picture," said Seamus O'Neill, a senior left tackle and captain out of Manchester Central. "Because right now every game is a playoff game for us."
Redshirt freshman defensive back Casey DeAndrade said the older guys — including the other two captains, Manny Asam and Chris Setian — are part of the motivation for him and the younger guys.
"Personally, I have four more years here," he said. "This could be it for them. We don't want to let them go out this way."
The Wildcats must restart an offense that was held under 100 yards rushing for the first time this season and had a season low in total yards and also turned the ball over three times against William & Mary. And they must do it against another tough defensive team.
Junior wide receiver R.J. Harris, who returns after missing the last three games to injury, should help.
Sophomore Sean Goldrich will start again at quarterback, if he's ready to go, McDonnell said. Goldrich and Andy Vailas, a junior out of Bedford and Bishop Guertin of Nashua, both played against William & Mary and both have been dealing with injuries this week.
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FACT IS, the men's hockey team has competed hard and well this season.
But the Wildcats have a 1-5-1 record, have lost their last four games and are winless in their last six.
"Overall, we've played pretty good, but we don't have a whole lot to show for it," said coach Dick Umile. "I'm not disappointed with the way the team has played, but I'm frustrated and I'm sure they're frustrated. But that cannot interfere with how we prepare and look forward to the next week. And that's what we're doing. It's about now. The present."
Now is a weekend series with Massachusetts. The teams play tonight at the Whittemore Center at 7:30 and on Saturday night they play at the Mullins Center at UMass at 7.
The Minutemen are 3-4-1 overall and 1-1-1 in Hockey East. They are 3-0-1 at home and are 0-4-0 on the road.
This is the first opponent UNH has played since its opener that was not ranked No. 15 or better when the game was played. One of the five losses was to Minnesota, which is now ranked No. 1, and a loss and tie came at home to Michigan, which is now No. 2.
The fact UMass is not ranked won't make things any easier, said senior forward Kevin Goumas.
"They're a very good team," he said. "They're fighting for Hockey East points, just like we are."


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A working mom is really just two different people with the same DNA. Don't believe me? Look at my credit cards.
During my last business trip I realized that each of my cards depicts a distinct side of me. Scan the statement on my corporate card and you'd likely label me a millennial jetsetter with a taste for luxury. That sassy lady wears clothes from trendy boutiques with names like Pookie & Sebastian, prefers cabs to subways and (gasp!) walking, dines at chic urban restaurants that require reservations, and sleeps at polished hotels that city mags deem "buzzworthy." She's a proud card-carrying member of a hair salon chain that specializes in blowouts and is a connoisseur of fine flavored iced coffee. (It takes that girl a full five minutes to order an espresso drink!) Her go-to apps include CNN, Twitter, Facebook, JetBlue and Huffington Post, all evidenced from the iTunes charges she's acquired.
The debit card statement reveals an equally smart but seemingly more sensible mom to a six-year-old with a magnetic attraction to Dollar Store toys. This "cardholder" has naturally curly hair and a style of dress one might call Target chic. She occasionally splurges with takeout from Pollo Tropical, hits the family-friendly gym only when the kid zone is open, and has been known to sport chipped nail polish. Her daily routine includes ample time inside her Honda CRV shuttling to the grocery store, a tidy elementary school, and the park—all marked by regular visits to BP. Go-to apps include Food Network, various kids' games that involve some form of racing, Netflix and Google Maps.
On the surface it might seem unlikely that these women have ever met, but alas, both belong to me, and I'm sure millions of other working moms have similar credit card statements. Such is the life. I switch roles (sometimes several times a day), and each requires its own way of dressing, talking, even thinking. There are times when I feel split in two, but truthfully, I kind of like the duality of my life. The perpetual stream of cocktail hours allows me to stay in touch with the "me" who loved foreign films and The New York Times long before Madagascar and Goodnight Moon. And when I'm home with my boy, I can let my proverbial hair down, wear flip-flops and host killer birthday parties.
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"The Hills" (2006-09) was a spin-off of her first reality show endeavor, "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" (2004-05). More recently, the 26-year-old Conrad has started two fashion lines, a beauty website and written several books.
Public records show that Conrad bought the property in 2008 for $2.36 million.
She sold because she recently bought a two-story penthouse in a 24-hour-security building in Beverly Hills for $1.35 million, public records show. The three-bedroom, four-bathroom contemporary condo has 3,233 square feet of living space, a spiral staircase and a large deck.
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I am in the minority.
I am among a special 30 percent of the U.S. population. I am blessed among men, lucky to be where I am and fortunate not to be a curmudgeon—though some might disagree with that last one.
I don't hate my job.
According to a recent survey, 70 percent of employed Americans hate their jobs. And about 18 percent of them not only hate what they do for a living but also are "actively disengaged" from their work and spend their days "roaming the halls spreading discontent."
If I spread discontent in my office—which is in my home—my wife most likely will demonstrate just what discontent looks like. I don't dread Mondays; I don't celebrate "hump day"; and I don't despair on Sunday evenings about how short weekends are. I like what I do.
I have had jobs that I didn't particularly like. I've worked construction—toiling in the humid heat of Upstate South Carolina digging ditches, shoveling gravel, and moving pipe. It was hard, sweaty, unrewarding labor. But it had a purpose—earning money to help pay for college.
I also worked in a cotton mill one summer and on Christmas break. I discovered that textile manufacturing was not a career path I wanted to follow. But the cotton mill, as well as the construction sites, put me a little closer to my goal—a college degree and career options.
I've worked in relatively low-paying jobs, even with a degree. The weekly newspaper where I started my career in journalism didn't pay much but offered immeasurable learning opportunities. And I enjoyed writing the news and publishing it for others to read. It was a rush—still is.
I sort of backed into agricultural journalism in 1976, after earning a second degree in English and wondering what I was going to do with it. Clemson University hired me on for a year as Experiment Station editor. A year later I switched to Extension editor and then Farm Press hired me in 1978. Let me do the math on that. If you subtract 1978 from 2013 you get real close to 35 years; take off another 18 months while I pursued other opportunities and you still have more than 33 years with the same company. I don't think that would have happened if I hated my job.
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I was talking to a farmer about that subject just last week. We had finished an interview, and he expressed his appreciation that I had come by to see him. I said something like it's my pleasure, and I enjoy these visits. And I told him: "I love my job." "I can tell," he said.
Well, that farmer and a lot more like him over the years are why I am in that fortunate 30 percent of American workers. Farmers make my job interesting. I'm never sure what I'll learn when I visit a farm. I might find bountiful crops; I might find drought-ravaged plants; I might find a wheat field hailed out or heavy with grain. I almost always find a new friend or an old one who treats me like family.
And I always leave full of ideas about how best to tell his story honestly and in a way that captures a little bit of who he is and why he loves his job. Sometimes I do that okay; rarely do I do it as well as I would like. Sometimes there just aren't words enough to explain how devoted these folks are to their land.
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|Bawean Deer has sometimes been included in Hog Deer Axis porcinus (Haltenorth 1963), but is better considered a full species (Groves and Grubb 1987, Grubb 2005). With Hog Deer it was often placed in the genus Cervus (e.g. Chasen 1940, van Bemmel 1944), until Groves and Grubb (1987) strongly argued for placement in Axis. The most recent analyses indicate that these two species, together with calamianensis, constitute a genus distinct from Axis, Hyelaphus (Meijaard and Groves 2004, Pitra et al. 2004). The species name is sometimes mis-spelled kuhli, but the correct original spelling, which must be used today, is kuhlii.
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|Critically Endangered C2a(ii) ver 3.1
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|Semiadi, G., Duckworth, J.W. & Timmins, R.
|Brook, S.M. & McShea, W.J.
|Pudyatmoko, S. & Huffman, B.
This species is listed as Critically Endangered because its population size is estimated to number fewer than 250 mature individuals, with at least 90% confined to one subpopulation, which, although currently stable, is expected to go into continuing decline due to an deterioration in habitat quality through invasion by Chromolaena and regrowth of Tectona grandis.
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|Range Description:
|This species is endemic to Bawean Island (= Pulau Bawean), in the Javan Sea off the northern coast of Java, Indonesia (Lachenmeier and Melisch 1996, Grubb 2005). Two main parts of the island are used, the central mountain range, and Mount Bulu in the south-west (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1978, 1987). Tanjung Cina (= Cina Cape), an area of 950 m x 300 m, which has hilly topography in its centre and no resident human population, lies at the north-west of Bawean Island and is often cut off from the main island by a sea level of 20–150 m; it has been much used by Bawean Deer since at least the 1990s (Semiadi 2004).
Today's restriction to Bawean is a relict from occurrence on Java, probably into the Holocene (van den Brink 1982), its disappearance from Java perhaps being caused by competition with Javan Rusa Rusa timorensis and Southern Red Muntjac Muntiacus muntjak (Meijaard and Groves 2004).
A specimen in the Institute of Zoology, Beijing, is labelled from Bangka Island, which lies off Sumatra (Indonesia); this is presumably in error (Grubb 2005). The species was supposedly discovered by Salomon Müller in 1836 in Tuban, a small town on the northern coast of Java, where the local governor kept a small herd in his garden, and the native range was discovered only after the name was proposed (Sitwell 1970). The species presumably evolved from a Pleistocene Javan Axis species (perhaps Axis lydekkeri) at a time when Bawean was connected to Java via a land bridge (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1987, Meijaard and Groves 2004). Suggestions that the genus was introduced to Bawean by early European settlers seem unlikely (Sitwell 1970) because of the wealth of fossil material (reviewed in Meijaard and Groves 2004), and were not ever referred to by Grubb (2005).
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Native:Indonesia (Jawa)
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|Bawean Deer was reported as 'plentiful' during the 19th century. The population increased in the 1950s in response to forest protection, declined during the 1960s–1970s (Grimwood 1976), although no estimates are available, and in the 1980s was thought to number around 300 animals and to be increasing once again (Blouch 1980, Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1987). Through a 1991 survey the deer was suspected to be in decline (Gunawan and Kustanto 1994). In 2006, the wild population was estimated (based on field-work in 1998–2003) to be stable at 250–300 animals (Semiadi 2004, G. Semiadi and S. Pudyatmoko pers. comm. 2006), but there has been no systematic survey; 500 would be an absolute maximum (G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2008). Secondary forest seems to be the ideal habitat, supporting up to 19.2 deer per km2 (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1978). Teak Tectona grandis forests with understorey, primary forest, and areas with teak and lalang support densities of 3.3 to 7.4 deer per km2, while regions dominated by Melastoma polyanthum and Eurya nitida brush, Rombok Merremia peltata, disturbed primary forest, and teak without understorey support only 0.9-2.2 deer per km2 (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1987). The most recent assessment is in Semiadi (2004), who drew attention to the wet-season densities of 11.8 animals per km2 on Tanjung Cina (= Cina Cape). In 2013 ranger patrols suggested the distribution of deer has not changed (Nursyamsi pers. comm. 2014).
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|Bawean Deer is found in primary and secondary forest, reaching higher densities in the latter (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1978, G. Semiadi and S. Pudyatmoko pers. comm. 2006). The species occurs up to 500 m (G. Semiadi and S. Pudyatmoko pers. comm. 2006), typically in hill forests rather than the marshy grasslands where Hog Deer is most numerous (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1987), despite the close taxonomic relationship of these two species. Bawean Deer uses forests with dense undergrowth for refuge while they rest during the day (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1978). It enters croplands, feeding on corn and cassava leaves, as well as grasses among the crops (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1987, G. Semiadi and Boeadi pers. comm. 2006). The species is found mainly in secondary forest, but enters burned grassy openings during the dry season (Blouch and Sumaryoto 1987). The most recent assessments are in Semiadi (2004).
Bawean Deer primarily grazes on herbs and grasses, but also browses young leaves and twigs (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1987). An individual deer produces 13 faecal pellet groups per day, a number which has been used to estimate population numbers (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1978). The seasonal rut is in September and October, although males may be found in breeding condition (i.e. with hard antlers) throughout the year (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1987, Whitehead 1993). The gestation period is 225–230 days, after which a single fawn is born, very rarely twins (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1987, Whitehead 1993). Most births occur from February to June; they occasionally occur in other months (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1987). In captivity, breeding occurs year round with females maintaining an interbirth interval of 9 months (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1978).
Bawean Deer are primarily nocturnal, active intermittently through the night. They are very wary, and appear to avoid contact with people; where human activity is heavy, the deer spend the day in forests on steep slopes that are inaccessible to teak loggers. Individuals are occasionally seen on the beach in the southwest of the island, but otherwise are rarely seen directly (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1978, 1987). It is typically solitary, although duos made up of a doe and fawn or a buck following a doe sometimes occur (Blouch and Atmosoedirdjo 1978).
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|Major Threat(s):
|Bawean Deer has been subject to uncontrolled hunting, probably since human settlement took place some 500 years ago. During the 1960s much forest on Bawean was replaced by teak plantations; coupled with increased hunting pressure, this probably caused the species to decline in numbers. Hunting ceased in 1977, and the population increased during the next few years (Anonymous 1978, Blouch and Sumaryoto 1987, G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2006). The hunting of pigs Sus scrofa with dogs persists, and leads to inadvertent death of deer (G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2006), but at the population level hunting is no longer a threat (G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2008). Presently, fewer than five deer die per year through direct human influence, chiefly in traffic accidents and when being chased by local dogs during pig hunts (G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2008). Maturation of teak (including coppicing from cut stumps) and invasion by the American herb Chromolaena odorata; Compositae (=Eupatorium odoratum) constitute the only significant predictable threat to this deer, through reducing the grazing areas and this carrying capacity (G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2013). Pigs (Sus spp.) may be impacting the re-growth of grass and other foodplants in grazing areas, which could pose a threat to the Bawean Deer population (G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2014) but this is not confirmed. For a population at best on the edge of the oft-quoted, though somewhat arbitrary, minimum figure for a population viable into the long term (500), such a further reduction (on top of the major contraction in available habitat for the species over past centuries) should be seen as a major threat despite recent population stability.
|Conservation Actions:
This species is listed on CITES Appendix I (CITES 2000). It is protected from hunting not just on paper, but effectively in practice (G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2008). It inhabits Bawean Island Nature Reserve (5,000 ha; the island is 200 km² in size), established in 1979 for which a management plan prepared in 1979 (WWF 1979; Blouch and Sumaryoto 1987) warrants revision. Management activities have included termination of hunting, controlled burning of grassy areas within forests, and thinning of teak plantations to encourage understorey development (Blouch and Sumaryoto 1987). Since 2000 a captive breeding programme has been operative on Bawean; in 2006 it involved a founder population of two stags and five hinds, and by 2014 numbered 35 animals (Meijaard et al. 2014). About 300–350 animals are held in zoos and private captive breeding facilities off the island (G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2006).
Recommended conservation actions, which should proceed through appropriate revisions to the management plan, include:
1) Increase the populations and if possible expand the area used by the deer. While the population seems to be stable, its small size and insular nature leave it susceptible to chance events (e.g. weather-related disasters or earthquakes or disease), to any resumption of hunting and probably to inbreeding. Increasing Chromolaena will result in time in population decrease. There is thus a major role for active management of habitat through control of Chromolaena, so as to increase population density within the protected area, and thus total population. This species, a problem plant throughout much of South and South-east Asia, is very difficult to control and review of international successes and failures is needed to inform management of the weed on Bawean. Full security would come only through an increase of the range on the island, requiring some deer-centred management for areas outside the protected area.
2) Assess the impact of deer on crops as this may have become a problem if effective protection has allowed the population to increase substantially, or the invasion of Chromolaena is pushing deer to eat more crops. If so, community-based mediation with local conservation officials may be required to find solutions and mitigate conflict.
3) Initiate a co-ordinated breeding programme to evaluate and if necessary address possible inbreeding deficiencies in the captive population.
|Semiadi, G., Duckworth, J.W. & Timmins, R. 2015. Axis kuhlii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T2447A73071875. . Downloaded on 20 August 2018.
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By Wayne Roberts
Citywatch: Whether it's action or traction in the food world, cities are stepping up to the plate. The world is fast going urban, as are challenges of social, economic and environmental well-being. Citywatch is crucial to Worldwatch. Wayne Roberts, retired manager of the world-renowned Toronto Food Policy Council, has his eye out for the future of food in the city.
There's everyday unsustainable, and then there's completely off-the-chart unsustainable. In this second slot, we can put the worldwide move to Western-style meals centered around livestock fed on cheap corn and soybeans. Feeding three squares of meat to the world's expected 9 billion mouths in 2050 would require doubling of global grain production, which in turn would require entire rainforests converted to corn and soy monocultures.
Roberts argues that livestock production in cities is not as far-fetched an idea as many might think. (Photo credit: Bernard Pollack)
Then there are reasonably modest alternatives, like livestock raised on grass and bugs in a managed wilderness, or even way-out proposals—such as raising animals for meat in the city.
The over-the-top option is just par for the course for veteran garden-variety city food producers. According to Toronto-based food analyst Diana Lee-Smith, a leading figure in the booming African urban ag movement, heavy duty food production in cities only becomes normalized during crises, such as war, when supply lines are cut off, or when muscle-building foods are monopolized by soldiers. Victory gardens supplied veggies to most British civilians during World War II, and when wartime rationing continued into the 1950s, "pig-bins" for food scraps that could be fed to pigs were typical, she told Nourishing the Planet. Even city food scraps become grist for the mill of agriculture.
If we rely on crisis to trigger interest in tending city livestock in North America, we might expect that to happen sometime shortly after oil runs out or just before hell freezes over.
But if we're lucky, another factor identified by Lee-Smith may help us move a little quicker to bring home the bacon while adding authenticity to the ranch-house lifestyle of suburbia.
In Nairobi, Kenya, home of the world's biggest slum and the place where Lee-Smith co-founded the Mazingira Institute to promote women-led urban ag, raising animals is both part of feeding families and managing urban waste.
It's been dubbed "the brown revolution." City livestock consume human discards or neglected resources—ranging from pools of rainwater in ditches to weeds along boulevards to food scraps to insects and larvae feeding on manure—and thereby saves cities from smothering in their own waste.
Food production as a way to manage city leftovers is the vision of Toronto's leading urban agtivist, Lorraine Johnson, author of City Farmer and several other classics on naturalizing urban wastelawns.
"Backyard chickens are the best little compost machines you can have," she tells me. They bring back the natural and holistic food cycle to an otherwise uncycled city. Natural cycles go like this: humans throw out veggie scraps and stale bread, chickens peck at them, feeding themselves and aerating the earth, flies and larvae dig into chicken poop , chickens eat the larvae for protein and leave the remaining poop to add rich nitrogen to otherwise depleted compost that's overdosed on plant carbs. It's closed loop in the Big City, true chicken poop for the soil.
Urban meat production allows us to overcome the problem that's overtaken much of the monocultured countryside, where, as Michael Pollan puts it, the over-specialized never-the-twain-shall-meet system of growing either plants or animals took a solution and made two problems of it. That's a reference to the old days of mixed farming, when farmers grew crops on a field one year, and restored the land's fertility the next year by putting livestock out on the fields. That system which provided a solution to farmers seeking land fertility and diversified incomes, but was displaced by today's more common system of buying artificial fertilizers from outside the region and relying entirely on one product for farm survival.
The economics of the alternative city cycle goes like this: instead of paying human waste handlers to haul away garbage, people provide a coop for chickens to produce gourmet fare out of scraps, then pay local butchers instead of garbagemen to handle the results, then use the primo compost to grow veggies. A chicken coop in every garage, a leased car in every parking lot, some version of an old saying goes.
Several cities across North America already allow city livestock, and Toronto will be considering a report to follow suit early next year.
The normalizing of such urban ag practices is helped along by such websites as those sponsored by Ontario's Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs. It portrays urban livestock matter-of-factly, with portals to relevant info on the kind of critters known to do well in cities—bees, rabbits, poultry, tilapia, yellow perch. It won't be long before dwarf goats, ducks and pigeons get added to the mix.
The most adaptable city livestock (think along the lines of the size and manageability of dogs and cats, not bulls) are small in size, can be tended humanely and safely in cramped yards, cause minimal disturbance to neighbors, consume scraps, yield fertilizer as well as meat—thereby modeling agriculture as a net producer, rather than consumer, of solar energy.
As well, Johnson notes, the small scale of backyard animal-raising holds stock problems that fester in factory farms—overuse of antibiotics and cruel suppression of instinctive animal behaviors are only two examples—at bay.
June Komisar, professor of architecture at Ryerson University, and co-author of the much-anticipated Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture, is a vegetarian.
She gulps when I ask about urban meat production, but quickly regains her composure and points out that urban livestock are the norm throughout the Global South, where all manner of farm animals have run of the street. "It's a trend that's developing here as well," she says.
Tending animals is part of gaining respect for food, she argues. "We're so divorced from sources of our food that it makes people queasy to see the animal they're going to eat." A common commitment to mindfulness may bring urban livestockers and animal welfare supporters together on this one. Reducing the distance and time between where an animal lives and where it's slaughtered is considered crucial to reducing the greatest burden of suffering by farm animals.
Komisar is also inspired by La Finca, a community farm in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where the Hispanic group, Nuestras Raices, turns a mixed farm into a mixed life skill, work skill and community development incubator.
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Though Toronto is a world leader in many aspects of food policy, it's quite behind the curve than the U.S. for mixed urban ag, likely the embalmed legacy of Toronto the Good, which still inspires staff to enforce blanket prohibitions rather than adapt with bylaws that identify conditions and safeguards for innovation.
But animals are the mixed in mixed farms, and will inevitably be part of the urban ag mix of tomorrow. Otherwise, Komisar asks, "what will we do with all the hens" once their egg-laying days are over? "Keep them all as pets?"


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Who saw? Who was seen? Was it you?
I was at the wrong party, but everyone was lovely. It was your birthday. Your friend told me to give you my phone number, but when I left you were surrounded with affection and I felt shy. If you wanted my number, find me.
You, clueless, reckless MORON on a bicycle turning in front of me just as I was turning right with my signal on for a while, 10/23 at 7:15pm. I realize you MORONS think that traffic rules don't apply to you, and you think they apply to motor vehicle drivers only. Next time you do that, I hope you won't be so lucky and the driver won't stop in time. You shouldn't be allowed to propagate your low IQ DNA. Want to be treated like a pedestrian? Walk! Like a vehicle? Follow the rules of the road!
You were getting ready to leave for bootcamp. My insecurities couldn't keep me from seeing you one more time. I tried to look my best for you. You always said none of that matters. We missed our movie, my shoe broke, we went the wrong way on a one way, and a car almost hit us. I can honestly say, I never smiled so much! I don't know how to say how I feel. Just know, I've always wanted you, and only you, since I laid my eyes on you. Spend New Year's with me—let's rent a cabin and lose ourselves.
You, angelic, pleasantly plump blond woman on exercise bicycle. Me, man with superhero sense of smell on the rowing machine next to you. Your scent taunts me. I don't see a ring on your finger. You looked at me several times and smiled that innocent-


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Welcome to the March Mindful Mama Carnival: Mindful Mama Challenge
This post was written for inclusion in the Mindful Mama Carnival hosted by Becoming Crunchy and TouchstoneZ. This month our participants have challenges they've set for themselves toward becoming more mindful. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
I am challenging myself this month to become more mindful of my environment and the way I live day to day. I know my kids and I have made a big adjustment moving to the other side of the country recently and I want to be sure there is a feeling of comfort and that we are living efficiently enough to achieve our goals. Mainly things are out of place in our lives right now. There is no continuity in anything. I'm probably exaggerating there, but I really want there to be more of a routine, more for my kids(and myself) to depend on.
Right now, we don't really know any other kids. There are some kids in the neighborhood, but when we go outside they're going inside or they're just too old for my kids to play with. It would be nice to have playdates or attend some kind of play-oriented class or program at the library.
We're also struggling with space in my mom's house. Our closet is filled up with my mom's things. I tried to store our thing in containers, but there's nowhere to put them that the kids can't reach, and when they reach them they make a mess of everything. I'm constantly changing where our things go and it is because I haven't come up with a sustainable system.
On that same topic, we don't really have any clothes for warm weather. My mom has a ton of clothes she is holding onto that she can't wear and I think it would be great to try to recycle her clothing rather than buy new clothes for myself and my daughters. I have a great little sewing machine that I left here years ago, and maybe it would do me some good to express to my mom my ideas about minimalism and non-consumerist values, which are coming into play between her and my oldest daughter.
Which brings me to my next goal; entertainment for my kids really needs to change. My mom and aunt recently bought my 4 year old Barbie dolls. They come with these little sheets of paper that have pictures of several other dolls in that series and my daughter whines non-stop about the other dolls she wants.
I know that despite my goals of showing her what is really important in life and that she doesn't need these things, her environment will have a big effect on how she really feels about it. I need to engage her in new, creative and adventurous things. I don't want her to fasten onto the idea of buying stuff, I want her to learn to create and appreciate what she has.
I think that keeping a schedule of activities to do regularly, field trips and surprise activities, and free play will help a lot. I also think I need to organize their toys better and put them into sections. I need to limit her to playing with a few things at a time, and take toys away when they become a problem, bringing them out later after the novelty has died down.
Lastly I really want to make the most of my time. This is a temporary situation, living with my mom again. I want to get memorable and transformational moments out of this. I don't want to be passive aggressive and upset that things aren't going my way and my parenting philosophies aren't being accepted. I need to set an example.
Instead of being upset that the TV is on all the time, I need to set up a fun activity, engage my mom with the things we have in common, like scrapbooking, and get us all in a space to create, support and get to know each other better. I need to allow my kids to feel comfort in their surroundings and I need to feel like this is my home too, however temporary it may be, I need to allow myself to enjoy it, I need to grow while I am here and not feel stunted due to the change in household.
I have already started on this challenge by talking to my mom and my daughter about having a more active, creative lifestyle and I'm currently setting several alarms a day to make sure we stay on track, meet our goals and have planned activities. I think I'm on a path to really transforming as a parent, not just in this situation, but for the long-term. The perceived limitations I face here are making me stronger, more appreciative and more organized.
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Please take time to read the submissions by the other carnival participants:
- The Importance of a Moment Jennifer at Hybrid Rasta Mama reflects on the need to slow down and breathe in life instead of rushing from one moment to the next.
- Mindful Playing With My Daughters Rani at Om She Said looked at her girls and realized that more than anything they wanted her right there next to them, playing, laughing, creating, and having fun; that's exactly what she did!
- Watch Your Words Patti at Canadian Unschooler challenges herself to make her words a reflection of her intentions.
- The Mindful Benefits of Knitting Dionna at Code Name: Mama shares how knitting has helped lift her out of depression and has given her a new form of meditation.
- Self Compassion: How Thinking About Bad Experiences Can Make You Happier and More Compassionate CJ at Imperfect Happiness challenges herself to be more compassionate…with herself.
- Calming the Home Environment by Selecting Traditional Toys Sam at Love Parenting discusses the benefits of natural toys.
- Quieting my Infernal Inner Ramblings Tree at Mom Grooves writes about her commitment to get out of her head and into the moment with her daughter and husband.
- Changing Our Everyday The Aniweda Dream is sizing up the changes they've made by moving across the country and looking at how to make their lives more mindful as a family.
- A Mindful Cup of Tea Amy at The Daily Muttering tells how she's trying to regain control of her life with the chaos of 3 kids thanks to the introduction of a simple daily ritual.
- Mindful Mama Moontime Lucy at Dreaming Aloud shares how becoming conscious of her moon time has helped her find balance in herself as a woman, and a mama.
- Speaking to the Need Shana at Tales of Minor Interest shares how she tries to stay mindful of her preschooler's needs.
- Going Within Amy at Anktangle describes a centering practice she's been being more intentional about lately, and which she has come to realize is a precious gift in her life.
- Waking Up With Meditation Amy at PresenceParents shares how awakening with presence carries her through the day.
- Mindful Meditations Zoie at TouchstoneZ explores six weeks of seated meditation and discovers some things she doesn't expect.
- Mindfulness in the Kitchen – an Everyday Challenge Kelly at Becoming Crunchy shares how she's been challenging herself to involve more mindfulness in everyday tasks – especially in the area of cooking for her family.


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Sep 09, 2003 | 496 Pages
"A lavish, richly textured meditation on family and culture. "
—Ilan Stavans, The Nation
"There's certainly much in this long-awaited 'big' novel from San Antonio's Sandra Cisneros. So much incident. So many narrative rabbit trails. So much humor. So much play of language. And, yes, so much humanity."
—Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle
"Bottom line: rich and bittersweet."
—Julie K. L. Dam, People
"Caramelo is a novel worthy of the tremendous anticipation that's built up [around it]. It's a swirling dinner-table collection of family tales, full of tears and laughter."
—Ron Charles, Christian Science Monitor
"Cisneros' finest skill is her descriptive language. It conjures up gorgeous visions of colors and forms…Her use of color, scent, sound and touch is breathtaking…These vignettes remind us that Cisneros is a writer for all people. This is a novel of families, home life and finding yourself in the world's greater landscape."
—Carol Memmott, USA Today
"Ten years in the making, Sandra Cisneros's second novel bursts from between its covers with all the energy of a riotous family fiesta. Emotions are in living color—raw, intricate and as brightly variegated as that most desirable of rebozos—the shawl they call the caramelo. This long-awaited second novel is potentially a watershed in U.S. Latino literature…."
—Adriana Lopez, Washington Post Book World
"Imaginative…charming…Cisneros weaves tales from her own childhood with fabulous fiction, whipping up the story of Lala and her eccentric Mexican and Mexican-American family. Guided by Lala's narration of her grandparents' and parents' histories, Caramelo engages in a kind of playfulness ('Tell me a story, even if it's a lie' is the quote that opens the book) that is utterly bewitching."
—Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, Entertainment Weekly
"With Caramelo, her exuberant, overstuffed novel, Cisneros undertakes storytelling on a grand scale, detailing the struggles and joys of three generations of a family, evoking a subtle panorama of cultural shifts. Her characters leap from the page in all their flawed humanity, falling in and out of love, squabbling and making up, working hard and making do."
—Jane Ciabattari, Los Angeles Times
"It is Cisneros' unique use of language that lifts Caramelo from the category of a very fine novel and situates it among the great literature of our time."
—Margaret Randall, The Women's Review of Books
"It's as if she has poured her entire life into a metafictional fable that combines the thematic richness of the most ambitious literature with the delight in character and plot of the most engrossing page-turner."
—Don McLeese, Chicago Sun-Times
"Lovingly, passionately woven…this is a huge, pan-generational, big-shouldered effort about identity, loyalty, loss, truth-telling, story-telling and, of course, memory, a little history, a little more gossip, a few terrible secrets and a thousand 'healthy lies' all pieced together into something as multishaded, raw-edged and timeless as that heirloom, great-grandmother's caramelo shawl."
—Margaria Fichtner, The Miami Herald
"A joyful, fizzy American novel. Cisneros writes poetry as well as prose, and her language is a lovely fusion of Spanish and English, idea and emotion, geography and spirit…This is one of those novels that blithely leap across the border between literary and popular fiction…Vivid…boisterous….playful…a delicious reminder that 'American' applies to plenty of territory beyond the borders of the United States."
—Valerie Sayers, The New York Times Book Review
"Poet and writer Cisneros's sprawling, spirited Caramelo, her first novel since her hugely successful The House on Mango Street, revisits Chicago's Mexican-American community—this time to retrace the story of the raucous, loving family of Lala Reyes, which stretches back through some tough years in San Antonio, Texas, to its roots in Mexico City…a tumultuous and eventful history. Vibrant and big-hearted like Lala herself, Cisneros's prose captures both the personal intimacies and the larger-than-life atmosphere of the Reyes family's passionate saga."
—Lisa Shea, Elle
"Sandra Cisneros is like a bee that extracts new honey from old flowers. And Caramelo is like a Mexican candy that you suck slowly, savoring it under your tongue for hours; yet it is never sticky, never sugary nor sentimental. Cisneros possesses that most difficult ability—to allow us to imagine that which never existed."
—Elena Poniatowska, author of Here's to You, Jesusa
"Writers tell secrets, and in so doing, reaffirm the truths of our lives, the strength of love, the marvel of endurance, and the power of generations. In Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros sings to my blood. Her words are sweet and filling, not sugar-driven but as substantial as meat on the bone. Hers is the kind of family I know well—people who love and hate with their whole souls, who struggle and make over with every generation. She has done them justice on the page; she has given them to us whole."
—Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
"It's a crazy, funny and remarkable folk-saga of Mexican migrants told by a curious little girl who has the wisdom of an old grandma. Beginning on Highway 66, it's a salsified variant on the Joad family's odyssey, zigzagging from Chicago to Mexico City and back. It's all about la vida, the life of 'honorable labor.' It's a beautiful tale of all migrants caught between here and there."
—Studs Terkel, author of Will the Circle be Unbroken
"This book is a crowded train, a never-stop round-trip train going and coming back and going again between Mexico and the USA, across the frontiers of land and time: full of voices, full of music, made from memory, making life."
—Eduardo Galeano, author of Memory of Fire and Upside Down
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Evader wrote:women will always carry more fat. a woman at 10% looks like a man at 5%.
I didn't mean to imply that you had said that all women carry more fat... that was a different poster. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I should've clarified
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Evader wrote:women will always carry more fat. a woman at 10% looks like a man at 5%.
owlwhisperer wrote:So how about raw vegan body builders?
BeansNBroccoli wrote:It is not always true that females carry more fat or that the definition/structure of a female at 10% will be similar to a male at 5%.
What is true is that breast tissue is mostly fat, so individuals with a lot of breast tissue will have more fat. This includes females and males with medical conditions such as gynecomastia. If an individual doesn't carry much breast tissue, their body fat % will be lower, regardless of sex. Yes this generally correlates to sex, but it's incorrect to say that women will always carry more fat than men. The general pattern of fat deposits found on most females is certainly not true for all females. There's tons of genetic variances that could account for different patterns of fat collection/muscle development, and your chromosomes are only one of them. To look at just chromosomal make-up as an indicator of where a certain individual will keep fat deposits just isn't as reliable as you may assume.
I know that females are also said to carry excess fat around the reproductive organs, as well, but one could make the similar arguments regarding this as I have already made regarding breast tissue. If you carry abdominal fat, you carry abdominal fat. Period. Regardless of sex.
Don't mean to harp, just a pet peeve of mine when an assumption is made that "women's bodies carry fat in this manner and men's bodies carry fat in this other manner" when chromosomes are really just one part of what is a hugely intricate genetic code that accounts for a lot of these differences. It seems to me to not be far from the old idea that females can't do pull-ups because of differences in upper body musculature, which as we all know simply isn't true, either.
As for raw vegan body builders, there is plenty of protein that can be gleaned from raw produce, and dry beans can be sprouted and be edible without the need to boil/cook. It might be a little/a lot more difficult, but there's no reason a raw body builder couldn't get sufficient protein if they structured their eating correctly.
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2008 Legislative Enactments of Interest to Libraries
Kansas Open Meetings Act Amendments
The 2008 Kansas Legislature amended the Kansas Open Meetings Act, K.S.A. 75-4317, in two ways. First, the definition of a meeting, for the purposes of the Open Meetings Act, was amended to read as follows:
"As used in the open meetings act, "meeting" means any gathering or assembly in person or through the use of a telephone or any other medium for interactive communication by a majority of the membership of a body or agency subject to this act for the purpose of discussing the business or affairs of the body or agency." (Chapter 178, 2008 Session Laws of Kansas)
Prior to the 2008 amendment, a meeting had been defined as a gathering which consisted of a majority of a quorum of the membership of the body.
The 2008 Legislature also amended the Open Meetings Act by inserting the following new language allowing for serial meetings:
"Except as provided by section 22 of article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, meetings in a series shall be open if they collectively involve a majority of membership of the body or agency, share a common topic of discussion concerning the business or affairs of the body or agency, and are intended by any or all of the participants to reach agreement on a matter that would require binding action to be taken by the body or agency."
It would appear then that a serial meeting may take the form of an in-person communication or through the use of a telephone, or any other medium of interactive communication. And any such meeting that also includes the other characteristics, listed above, would need to be open and follow other Open Meetings Act requirements.
The Attorney General's website has been changed to reflect the 2008 amendments and also addresses frequently asked questions about complying with the Kansas Open Meetings Act at http://www.ksag.org/content/page/id/140
Structure of Public Boards
Also of interest is new language enacted as "New Section 4" of House Bill 2217, which provides that after July 1, 2008, any appointment to any board, commission, advisory group or other body made by the mayor of any city which is subject to approval of the governing body of the city must be acted upon by the governing body within 45 days of the appointment by the mayor or the appointment shall be deemed approved. The language also provides that the governing body of the city shall approve such appointment unless the governing body makes a specific finding by the passage of a resolution that the person is either unqualified to hold the office or is not fit to hold the office or position.
With the passage of H.B. 2217, the 2008 legislature also amended K.S.A. 12-1222, making it possible for a governing body of any city to appoint a library board of 10 members, as an alternative to the 7 member boards already provided for.


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Nuclear Physics (NP)
Proposals for Nuclear Physics projects and initiatives vary widely in their scope and complexity. The review and approval process, as well as the means by which support is provided, can differ and is dependent on several factors. One factor which influences the process for consideration of new requests is whether they originate from a national laboratory, a university, or a university Center of Excellence.
National laboratory instrumentation initiatives are typically supported with capital equipment funds. University instrumentation initiatives are typically supported with operating funds or permanent equipment funds that have been requested through the standard grant application process. However, there are university Centers of Excellence within the Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics (NP) programs which operate accelerator facilities. For these Centers, capital equipment funds may also be provided for instrumentation and accelerator projects. The federal government retains ownership of equipment purchased with capital equipment funds. A university group may also receive capital equipment funds if it gains approval to fabricate a piece of scientific instrumentation that will be installed, operated and maintained at a national laboratory. In such cases, it is the responsibility of the national laboratory to examine the proposal and submit it to NP once the documentation addressing mission need, scientific merit, and technical feasibility is deemed ready for review by NP. Depending on the scope and funding amount of such projects, formal DOE milestones (termed Critical Decisions) may be established for different phases of the project.
The Critical Decision process and associated project phases are defined within DOE's Program and Project Management for the Acquisition of Capital Assets Order 413.3B. Though the Office of Science is exempt from following the requirements identified in DOE O 413.3B (applicable for all line item construction projects and Major Items of Equipment (MIEs) greater than $50M in Total Project Cost (TPC)), the Office of Science continues to follow DOE O 413.3B with differences primarily in management approval authority for projects with a TPC greater than $10M (see the Office of Science, Office of Project Assessment (OPA) web site for several summary documents describing the DOE O 413.3B requirements and as they are implemented by the Office of Science).
For all proposals and initiatives, 'Mission Need' must be established by NP. This is typically accomplished through peer-review. The lead-time needed by NP to assess mission need for a new proposed effort, and to plan accordingly in the federal budget formulation process, varies depending on the scope of the project and the magnitude of the request. MIEs are usually supported at National Laboratories only. Any initiative to be installed at a national lab, funded with capital equipment funds and with scope greater than $5 million in Total Estimated Cost (TEC), which includes all engineering and fabrication costs (see the DOE Order 413.3B for more details), needs to be identified individually in the federal budget as Major Items of Equipment (MIEs). In addition, to be an MIE, civil construction costs cannot be more than 25% of the Total Project Cost. For capital equipment initiatives to be located at a non-laboratory location, the threshold by which to be identified as an MIE in the federal budget is $2M in TEC. In a given fiscal year (FY), preparation of the budget for the fiscal year two years later begins in January. As a result, the steps needed to establish scientific merit and technical feasibility for MIE projects need to be completed by January two years prior to the proposed start of TEC funding. For example, the budget formulation process for the FY 2015 budget will begin early in calendar year 2013; thus, a proposal requesting funding greater than $2 million (TEC) which starts in FY 2015 must be received and peer-reviewed in 2012. The larger and more complex the proposal, the earlier in 2012 it would have to be submitted. In this example, the spring of 2012 would have been an appropriate time to begin interacting with NP regarding proposal submission and review. The lead time is the same for line item construction projects (initiatives for which the Total Project Cost (TPC) is greater than $10M and more than 20% is in civil construction), substantial accelerator improvement projects that cannot be accommodated within a facility's base budget, or university projects requesting substantial funds above a current base funding level. The TPC for a project includes all DOE resources used for construction: capital equipment funds as well as operating funds for R&D and conceptual design costs following approval of Mission Need, project management costs and pre-operations cost prior to approval of Project Completion.
Within NP, responsibility for establishing mission need for new initiatives is delegated depending on the areas of responsibility of respective Program Managers. The points of contact for various initiatives are listed below:
Once an initiative has achieved Mission Need and NP decides to proceed, further reviews may be required that focus on technical, cost, schedule and management aspects. Such reviews are formally required by DOE for MIEs and line item construction projects, and may also be implemented for large accelerator improvement projects; these reviews are the responsibility of the NP Facilities and Project Management Division. Reviews are performed by OPA for projects greater than $10M, though tailored for those less than $50M, to evaluate progress and readiness towards obtaining approval of Critical Decisions that advance the development stages of a project. Additional reviews for other types of projects may be required by NP depending on the complexity and needs of proposed projects. All review and monitoring processes are tailored to the needs and complexity of proposed projects.
Questions regarding the process for new proposals and initiatives should be directed to the Director of the Research Division and/or the Director of the Facilities and Project Management Division in the Office of Nuclear Physics.
The Office of Science (SC) is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States.